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For forty yars. through tie enact
ment of protective tariSs. we have
tn ccrrt-pting vur public Den.
Christ wstfc. a profound knowledge of
bursas feature, taught Ms disciples to
pray that tLy should cot be led Into
temptation- Though profeftslag his
teachings, we hate given our legisla
tors tte power of tranEft-ning millions
cf do'-ar from the hands of the people
to tt pockets of the few hundred
N a poliosis of finance." by a single con
gressional enactment. A more stu
pendous Instrument of corruption was
never conceived by the perverse In
genuity of man than this power con
ferred upon congress. Place three or
four hundred republicans or democrats
of approved honesty In congress, con
tinue them there for a few years, and
a considerable proportion of their
center will sareiy yield to the temp
tation to cake money out of tariff
legislation. So successful have com
binations cf wealth and avarice been
in controlling national legislation that
today few men think f attaining
wealth In great business adventures
wiiloct national or state aid In the
fern of special legislation. Young
in fact all classes of men. pin
ing lets confidence than in the olden
times ia industry and ecenomy, turn
their eyes to legislation as the sure
eoerte of wealth, and therefrom
spring tie feverish, speculative, un
scrupulous spirit of the day which is
sappiiig and dtroying our fine young
American xnanhool.
We night feel more hopeful that
there was a favorable outlook for bet
ter conditions were It not for the fact
that the receiver of the Immense pro
fits of the treets do not hesitate to de
rote millions cf dollars for the cam
paign disbursements of political par
ti, and for the purpose of misin
forming ye, even corrupting the
citizen through their paid oScial news
paper organs. Let us observe for a mo
ment some cf the results of the un
holy practice. The last century In its
early and middle course witnessed a
rlonous ycrjcir enthusiasm for the
freezes and independence of the in
divlisAl man. justly ascribing to his
independence and liberty the sure
foundatica of free government. In
ttose days tte ladrs of poliUcal par
ties tad convictions about the origin
and province of government over
which tier fotzght each other vigor
ously. All tM Is changed now. Pa
ternalUm, with its weaklings and
moral slave, is upon us. Just la pro
pcrtioa ijt cranied wealth has seised
upa govemmect for its own purposes,
so has individual character and inde
pendence fallen away from its former
noble estate. Convictions upon public
questions, at lean among the politic
ians, no longer exist. Go into your re
publican or democratic clubs and list
en to the talk of the leaders, and you
will find that they have no higher
thought thaa to qaarrel over "which
net of maggots shall eat the cheese."
Now turn to the voters themselves,
and yoa will find that they are inoc
ulated with those pernicious doctrines
that good times and bad times are the
immediate and sole result of party ac
tion; that a trust magnate atones for
his Unjust enrichment by a Liberal dis
bursement of his plunder; and that
those who profess to believe that pub
lic office is a public trust are neces
sarily hypocrites, doctrinaires, or focls.
- Public extravagance is one of the
most effectual means of destroying
public virtue; and public extravagance
In national matters has resulted, in a
large measure, from the fact that the
surplus income must be disposed of by
one means or another in order to re
move Its existence c an objection to
bich tariffs. Would our representa
tives in congress dare to multiply
offices, approve hundreds of tin meritor
ious private :lalms, enact wasteful
river and harbor bills, and squander
the public domain If the national ex
penses had to be defrayed by an overt,
irritating tax, taking the money direct-
ir from the citizen's pocket? Every
monument of English liberty is conse
crated by the blood of men' who fought
against the Imposition of an open, un
just tax; while tyranny has ever thriv
en rider the secrecy and mystery of
income for government expenses raised
by excises rnd duties.
The fact that a great proportion of
the irus 1 re a direct oLtip-OTvth of
protective tariffs is too "well known
cmong intelligent men to require ar
gument; but I do wish to urge, with
all the earnestness of my being, the
danger to the liberty and the indepen
dence of the individual man from
"these domestic spoilers that make us
slaves and tell us 'tis our charter."
Industrial slavery Is only a stfp re
moved from political slavery. There
Is not a man in any humble home in
all thi? land but who ought to feel ag
grieved by the extortions of the trusts.
"They sip in his cup, they ait at his
fire, they. follow him In every step
of his life and rob him. Dick Turpin
was a modest highwayman. He re
lieved the traveller upon Hounslow
Heath of his pocket-book and his
watch; but our modern highwaymen
put Dick Turpin to the blush, for they
Heal the very highway itself, put upon
it their st?am and electric railways,
and. not satisfied with this, they still
follow the wayfarer to his home, and
there, year in and year out, extort from
him tribute upon every piece of coal
or iron or steel or wire or tin plate
that he uses. Clamoring for aid at
home as infant Industries, and appeal
ing to the people's patriotism for sup
port, they sll their goods in every for
eign mart of trade at lower prices than
to our own domestic consumers. Ev
ery true American ought to resent
this. 'The store-keeper who obeys the
command of the trust, the glas s jobber
who dares not buy plate-glass abroad
because of an Intimation that his busi
ness will be ruined, each may trace his
lineago back to a revolutionary sire,
but It Is not of such cowards that
liberty Is born and perpetuated. Louis
Napoleon did not strangle the liberties
of France in a night time. Ere he
came, the French people had relin
quished their rights of citizenship.
Those who live under a representative
form of government must rise moral
ly or they will sink politically. We
cannot measure Justice by expediency,
we cannot sell our souls to material
ism, we cannot fold our arms to sleep
and surrender to the greed of un
scrupulous wealth and still preserve
free government In its integrity. We
may give credent ear to the flattery of
demagogues, we may console ourselves
with the hope that things are not as
bad as they really seem, we may de
ceive ourselves with the forms of free
government long after the spirit of lib
erty has fled, but If we are to pre
serve free government and to act
worthily of those who laid Its founda
tions in prayers and in blood, we must
emulate them in their hatred of la
Justice and extortion.
FRANKLIN PIERCE.
New York.
SLAUGHTER IN CHINA.
Chinese Convert Tells of Fright
. ful Scene at Tai-Yuan-Fu.
FOUTY-riVE lOEEIQH MABTYB3.
It is stated that the British novern
ment has imprisoned the authoress,
Olive Schriner. Many people have
wondered that she was so long silent
as cot a word has been heard from
her for many months. It now turns
out that she is In close confinement
and not allowed to writ, or receive let
ter?. The British censors have for
bidden any mention being made of the
fact.
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THtrty-thr.e Protestant sad Twth
Roman Catholic. Beheaded Bodle.
Denaded and Head Hsag In Caa.
HLclonarle - Remained Calm sad
Preached Till Executioner Strnclc
A recent mail from China brings a
thrilling account of the murder of the
missionaries at Tal-Yuan-Fu on the 9th
of last July, which was taken down In
writing by Dr. J. A. Creasy Smith from
the narrative of Yung Cheng, a mem
ber of the Baptist church, who was an
unwilling witness of their martyrdom,
writes the Washington correspondent
of the Chicago Record-Herald. Yung
Cheng is vouched for as a Christian of
excellent characterand absolutely trust
worthy. He says that he was taking
treatment in the hospital on the Bap
tist society's premises at Tal-Yuan-Fu
when, on the 8th of July, he saw Rev.
Mr. Pigott, his wife and child, John
Robinson, Miss Duval and two young
women named Atwater brought into
the town. The two gentlemen were
handcuffed and escorted by a company
of soldiers and followed by immense
throngs of natives. Wherever they
stopped to rest Mr. Pigott and Mr.
Robinson preached to the people, who
gathered around them and were very
1 much astonished, saying, "You are go
ing to be killed for preaching, and yet
you conUnue to do so." That night
the party were placed in prison with
a number of other missionaries and
their wives and children, including
several Catholic priests. The t next
morning they were all executed.
"The first to be led forth," Yung
Cheng says, "was Mr. Farthing, a
BapUst minister. His wife clung to
him, but he put her aside gently, knelt
down without saying a word, and his
head was struck off by on blow of the
executioner's knife. He was quickly
followed by Pastors Hoddle and
Beynon, Drs. Lovitt and Wilson, all of
whom were beheaded with one blow
by the executioner. Then the gov
ernor, Yu Hsien, grew Impatient and
; told his bodyguard, all of whom car
ried big beheading knives with long
handles, to help kill the others. Pastors
Stokes, Simpson and Whitehouse were
next killed, the last by one blow only,
the other two by several.
"When the men were finished, the
ladles were taken. Mrs. Farthing had
hold of the hands of her children, who
clung to her, but the soldiers parted
them and with one blow beheaded
their mother. The executioner behead
ed all the children and did it skill
fully, needing only one blow; but the
soldiers were clumsy, and some of the
! ladies suffered several cuts before
death.
"Mrs. Lovitt was wearing her spec
tacles and held the hand of her little
boy, even when she was killed. She
spoke to the people, saying as near as
I remember: 'We all came to China to
bring you the good news of salvation
by Jesus Christ; we have done you no
harm, only good. Why do you treat us
so? A soldier took off her spectacles
before beheading her, which needed
two blows.
"Wheu the Protestants were all kill
ed, the Roman Catholics were led for
ward. The bishop, an old man, with
long white beard, asked the governor,
Yu Hsien, why he was doing this
wicked deed. I did not hear the gov
ernor give him any answer, but he
drew his sword and cut the bishop
across the face one heavy stroke; blood
poured down his white beard, and he
was beheaded. The priests and nuns
quickly followed him in death.
"Then. Pastor Pigott and his party
were led from the district jail, which is
close by. He was still handcuffed, and
so was Mr. Robinson. -He preached to
the people till the very last, when he
was beheaded with one blow. Mr. Rob
inson suffered death very calmly. Mrs.
Pigott held the hand of her son, even
when she was beheaded, and he was
killed immediately after her. The lady
and two girls were killed also quickly.
'On that day 45 foreign people in all
were beheaded, 33 Protestants and 12
Roman Catholics. The bodies of all
were left where they fell Ull next
morning, as it was evening before the
work was finished. During the night
they were stripped of the clothing and
other things, such as rings and watch
es. Next day they were removed to a
place Inside the great south gate except
some of the beads which were placed
In cages on the gates of the wall."
PINQREE'S LAST TASK.
Fsrpoiss mt Bts Tlstt to Esnbs and
oath Africa.
In an Interview In New York the
other afternoon with a correspondent
of the Detroit Journal Colonel Ell R.
Button of Detroit, who was the travel
ing companion of ex-Governor Plngree
during his trip through South Africa
and Europe, said: "
"Haxen 8. Plngree went to South Af
rica largely for the purpose of putting
into practical effect three gigantic
schemes for the benefit of the people of
Michigan: - 5 -
"First. The reclamation of the Im
mense pine forests In Michigan by
planting 'trees. He went to the Bava
rian Black forest to expand this Idea
and overworked so much that lie has
tened his death. "
"Second. The rotation of crops In
Michigan. In pursuit of this scheme he
went to Egypt, where such a system is
enforced by the government. -
"Third. The transportation cf every
patriot Boer and his family who desir
ed to come to the United States. He
quizzed British officials on this subject,
gained their approval of It and had an
appointment to consult with Kroger
about It which was only prevented by
the governor's Illness.
"It was his Idea to Interest some
Michigan capitalists In the plan and
provide lands for the Boers among the
railroad systems. He thought that
these capitalists could secure very low
transportation rates from the seaboard
to the farms, and he proposed to let the
British government In " some round
about way provide the ships for the
Boers' transportation from Africa to
this country. A number of English of
ficers now In South Africa and some
eminent public men in England took
this plan seriously and thought well of
it, provided it could be carried out
without the British government's aid
in the matter becoming known.
"While studying the Black forest In
the interest of his reforestation Idea
Governor Plngree even secured the
names of a number of keepers who
were willing to emigrate to Michigan
and assume care of the forests he pro
posed to plant."
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After a successful endeavor to intro
duce macaroni wheat into the United
States, the department of agriculture
is confronted with the discouraging
sequel that there is no factory at which
to .market the product, writes the
Washington correspondent of the New
York Post. Macaroni, it should be ex
plained, requires a certain species of
hard wheat for Its manufacture. Ef
forts have been made to use the ordi
nary American wheat for this purpose,
but they have not been entirely suc
cessful, and at present nearly all the
macaroni used is Imported. The de
partment sent abroad and secured from
Algiers and Russia the particular kind
of wheat used In the Italian and
French macaroni mills and has suc
ceeded In making it grow in several
parts of the west. Now the authorities
say that there Is an opening for some
bright young macaroni maker and an
accommodating capitalist.
WILL RUE WAKfNG OF CHINA
Jean de Bloch'a Prediction of tho
Neve Empire.
"China will be a mighty world power
within a generation. The powers have
themselves' to thank for the prospect,"
said M. Jean de Bloch. one of Russia's
councilors of state and a member of the
cxars ministry of finance. In an Inter
view the other night with the New
York Herald's London correspondent.
M. de Bloch has arrived in London to
lecture on the lessons of the Boer war
In their application to European condi
tions. He continued: ; "
"The allied Invasion 6f the Chinese
empire accomplished but one tangible
and abiding thing. It has federated a
great and patriotic people as indissolu
bly as did Bismarck the united states
of the German empire. It has awaken
ed In them a sentiment of aggressive
nationalism that bodes 111 for the civili
zations which so long have held them
In contempt.
"Perhaps the new China will, never
menace the political peace of the world.
It will certainly revolutionize Interna
tional commercial conditions. I expect
to see the day when Chinese traders
will drive out of the oriental markets
all the nations now. assuming exclusive
rights there. With these retaken who
can tell where .the ambitions of the
awakened empire will stop?. China has
simply been rudely aroused from cen
turies of slumber. When her eyes are
wide open to her own potentialities, the
powers may rue the day they sounded
the alarm."
GREAT FIND OF RELICS. .
Diver Reco-ver Can Carriages TJeed
on Schooner Royal Savajre.
J. G. Falcon of Burlington, Vt, a div
er, recently visited the spot where the
schooner Royal Savage, commanded by
General Benedict Arnold, was sunk In
1776 by the British, 6ays the New York
World. He found three gun carriages
and about 30 cannon balls and shot.
Two of the former will be sent to the
Smithsonian Institution at Washing
ton, and the other has been given to
the city of Burlington.
The relics were discovered In about
SO feet of water. - The carriages are
made of wood and iron, the former be
ing now petrified. Further Investiga
tions, It Is thought may lead to finding
the private papers of Benedict Arnold
which were lost on the boat.
A Bis Canal Scheme In Austria. .
A vast canal scheme is now under
consideration by . the Austrian parlia
ment, according to a report received at
the state department t in Washington
from Consul Mahin at Reichenberg.
The plan contemplates a canal from a
projected Odor-Danube waterway east
ward to the Dneister river, which flows
Into the Black sea, another westward
to. the Elbe and still another to join
the Danube and Moldau rivers. This
would mean a network of canals cover
ing the principal provinces of Austria,
affording cheap all water routes to the
Adriatic, Black and Baltic seas and
linking the navigable streams of the
empire. The scheme was at first re
ceived with considerable enthusiasm,
the government announcing that $150,
000,000 would be appropriated -for it,
each interested province bearing a share
of the burden. But the agrarian element
has begun a strong opposition to It, as
serting that by cheapening freight rates
the canals would flood Austria with
foreign food products. - The project is
strongly supported, however, by manu
facturing and commercial ' interests
generally, and Consul Mahln says,
though its fate Is uncertain, there are
strong hopes of Its passage.
DOCTORING FREE
Tho British Doctors arc Doing; This to In
troduce Themselves. Three Months' Ser
vices are Given Vroo to all Who Coll at
Their Office In tho Sheldon Block Corner
11th and K Streets
A staff of eminent physicians and
surgeons from the British Medical In
stitute have, at the urgent solicitations
of a large number of patients under
their care in thU country, established
a permanent branch of the Institute
in this city, at the cor. of 11th and
N sts., Sheldon block.
These eminent gentlemen have de
cided to give their services entirely
free for three months (medicines ex
cepted) to all invalids who call upon
them for treatment between now and
August 7. These services consist not
only of consultation, examination and
advice, but also of all minor surgical
operations.
The object in pursuing this course is
to become rapidly and personally ac
quainted with the sick and afflicted,
and under no conditions will any
charge whatever be made for any ser
vices rendered for three months to all
who call before August 7.
The doctor treats all forms of disease
and deformities and guarantee a cure
in every case they undertake. At the
interview a thorough examination is
made, and. if incurable, you are frank
ly and kindly told so; also advised
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M'ale and female weakness, catarrh
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THE GREAT STRIKE
BOER ACCUSES BRITISH
General Smuts Says Their Mode
of Warfare Is Barbarous.
SPECIFIES BTBEma UfSTASOES,
The Steel Trnst and Orgeat z.d Labor Be-g-ln
a Battle, the End or Which no
Man Can Tell
The greatest strike of modern times
has just been inaugurated. The steel
trust has thrown down the gauntlet to
organized labor and it has been
promptly taken. Already over sixty
thousand men have struck and many
of the mills of the trust have been
closed. The issue involved is one of
principle, and such an issue cannot
well be compromised. The Amalga
mated association, as these steel work
ers are termed, insist that all the trust
mills shall be unionized. The trust
managers decline on the alleged ground
that it would be unjust to a certain
class of their employes to compel them
to join the unions. The real reason is
that by throwing orders to the non
union mills the union workmen can be
starved out. The question of wages is
not involved. Union and non-union
men receive the same. The contest,
therefore, is over a question that does
not admit of compromise. One side or
the other must back down. Which
will it be? While the mills are idle,
labor will not be earning wages and
the trusts will not be earning divi
dends. Serious loss to both parties to
this controversy is inevitable. The
trust cares nothing for its non-union
workmen, save as it can use them as a
club with which to beat the life out of
organized labor, and thus remove the
only barrier which stands between
workingmen and starvation wages. It
the process becomes too costly from
the enforced idleness of the mills the
trust will finally concede the point,
and from mercenary considerations
only. The real safety of the non-union
workmen, therefore, lies in throwing
themselves on the side of the Amalga
mated association and joining the un
ions, thus compelling the trust to do
justice to labor.
Did General Funston read Harper's
Weekly for December 23, 1899, which
contained an imaginative sketch by
Duffield Osborne forecasting "The Cap
ture of Aguinaldo"? The question is
raised by the resemblance which this
sketch . throughout bears to the real
facts as they occurred the other day.
Indeed, the ruse outlined In the story
is identical in almost every detail
with that by which General Funston
succeeded in capturing the rebel. An
epitome of the story Is reprinted in
the current number of Harper's Week
ly, and when we remember that it was
originally published fifteen months
ago, it will be seen to present a ques
tion of curious psychological- coinci
dence. If the general did read Mr. Os
borne's story, then it may be asked:
"Did General Funston plagiarize Mr.
Osborne?" Harper's Bulletin.
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It e worts te Foraer rresldent Stern
, That Prtwato Property la Betas
1 Wavatonlr Destroyed and That Wo
men and Children Are Bhatnefally
; 111 Treated Crneltr of Kaffirs.
The Rev. Herman 'D. van Broeck
hulsen, Boer pastor of Pretoria, who Is
now In Jersey City, has received a copy
of the report of Assistant Commandant
General Smuts to former President
Steyn regarding the sufferings of the
women and children in the western dis
tricts of the South African Republic.
The report Is an arraignment of the
methods of the British and their de
struction of private property, says the
New York Sun. General Smuts was
state attorney of the South African Re
public and declares that he Is well In
formed on the subject of International
law, which he accuses the British of
violating repeatedly. The report bears
date of Dordrecht, June 25.
General Smuts begins by saying that
the particulars given are from evidence
on oath or from his own observa
tion, that they do not constitute a
complete account of all the shameful
and unlawful deeds committed by the
enemy, but are only a few typical
cases" selected from a great amount of
similar material.
In July, 1900, at Bronkhorstspruit
station. General Smuts saw two women
and some children who had been driv
en from their home by the British.
They were Mrs. Neethllng of Tierpoort,
mother of the magistrate of Klerks
dorp, and her daughter, Mrs. Du Toit,
and her children. Mrs. Keethling was
more than TO years old. The weather
was so cold that General Smuts suf
fered greatly from it, and he was In
formed that several British soldiers
had died there. ,The two women were
entirely without protection of any sort
and had only the clothing they were
wearing. They were without food.
Mrs. Keethling said that her home had
been near the field of the battle of Don
kerhoek and that one evening soon
after that fight a British officer came
to her house with a strong patrol and
gave her notice to leave that same
night, as the place was to be burned
the next day. She replied that it was
impossible for her. to move, as all the
cattle and carts had been seized by the
British and she was too old to walk to
the Boer lines. The officer Insisted
with such Impudence that the daughter
of Mrs. Du Toit, who was the Interpre
ter, told him he ought to be ashamed
of persecuting defenseless and helpless
women. Thereupon he shipped her In
the face.
' Finally a messenger was sent to the
Boer lines for a cart, but when It came
the British officer, who was an Aus
tralian colonist, refused to allow any
food, clothing or bedding to be taken,
and the women were forced to set out
In the bitter weather in that destitute
condition. General Smuts says this Is
a typical example of what happened
In hundreds of cases. "And this hap
pened, he says, "when Lord Roberts
was still negotiating for a general sur
render and was full of expectation of
reaching his aim. But when that hope
was gone, when circumstances made it
certain that he would keep up the
fight, then all bounds of civilization
were broken down.
"When we wanted to fight the ene
my," continues the report, "his troops
took refuge behind the dwellings in
which our women and children were,
so that It was Impossible for us to
fire at them. When we wanted to shell
their camps, they were full of our wo
men and children, kept there as pris
oners. Old men with one foot in the
grave were taken prisoners and driven
along before the troops. Old Gert
Oosthuizen, 73 years' old, was sent
with a flag of truce by General Clem
ents to General Delarey to request us
to confer with him on the state of the
country. When we declined to hold
such a conference, he flew Into such a
passion that he ordered the old man to
be seized and removed as a prisoner of
war. Even children of 12 years have
been taken prisoners because they look
ed too much like warriors.
"In the pocket of an English officer
who fell at Boschfonteln we found a
letter In which he explained In a hu
morous way how In one house the wo
men and children were told that they
tnlght remove whatever they liked, as
the house was to be ( burned down.
They were allowed one hour for the
work. When they had carried every
thing outside and piled it up, this lot
was also set on fire. And this officer
tells these things as if It were fun. If
this is the way In which officers think
and act, what Is to be expected from a
common soldier, what from a Cape boy
and the Kiffirs with whom the English
army Is Infested? Very often women
and children are beaten by them, as In
the case of the old widow. Mrs. Goet
ee of Eland's River, Rustenburg, whom
after the English forces had left I
found In a deplorable state because of
the ill treatment 6he had undergone.
"The afternoon I left Mrs. Goetzeel
went on a scouting tour along the
Doom river, where General Douglass
had been the day before. It was night,
but the moon was out when I arrived
there. At the first farm everything
bad been destroyed and burned down.
The second farm had not been burned,
but plundered, and not a living soul
was left there. That night I passed
by 12 or 14" farms; all of -which had
been burned or looted, and not a living
thing was 2eft Late that night I lay
down to sleep In the yard of the beau
tiful property Doornkom, which had
been plundered and destroyed. The
owner, Mr. MoHtert, Is a prisoner of
war In St. Helena. His wife has died,
and his little children were left with
some relatives.- In the morning I found,
to my surprise, that all the families of
the district had come back from the
neighboring hills, like badgers from the
ground. The women , had fled with
their children to the hills, thinking they
were safer with the wjld beasts .than
under the protection of the colors and
armies of her majesty. Some of the
women here had been cruelly ill treat
ed, even dishonored, by Cape boys. .
"When the enemy came to Groenfon
tein, on tho Coste river, brave old
Luikes van der Werwe, contrary to the
orders of General Delarey, fired at the
hostile scouts from behind a wall on
his estate. His wife left the house to
beg him not to do so. She was fired on
and wounded mortally In the head.
Her husband carried her Into the house
and was taken prisoner there and trans
ported to the English camp. The dy
ing woman and her three or four little
children were carried out of the house
and Its surroundings burned down.
She was taken to the house of Mr. Al
bert Bibier, where several other chil
dren were. She had hardly arrived
there when the house was plundered.
Not a rug or pillow was left for the dy
ing woman, and all the food was de
stroyed by fire. Mrs. Bibier protested
against this violence and asked how
she was to feed her children and the
little orphans. To this the English re
plied, 'Let the Boers look, after you.'
She was allowed to save only a double
handful of mealies from the flames.
"The estate Cijferfonteln, belonging
to Faul Grober, was not only looted
and burned down, but his mother-in-law,
a widow more than 70 years old,
was ill treated In a horrible manner.
The soldiers threw her down on the
ground and partly undressed her and
then by violence took from her all the
money and objects of value which for
safety's sake she had concealed about
her person. Then - they left her for
dead. I mention this case only aB an
example of what happened and Is still
happening almost daily.
"It Is not necessary that I should
enumerate the parts and districts that
have been ravaged. The whole coun
try, the whole republic, has been de
stroyed to the root. The same specta
cle of annihilation and misery is seen
everywhere. I shall therefore speak of
another subject namely, how the ene
my avails himself of the help of the
Kaffirs to make our women and chil
dren suffer greater pains. The mas
sacres at Derdepoort and at other
places on the western border have been
surpassed by what has happened since
May last The Kaffir chiefs, having
joined the enemy, crossed the western
border and committed murders and
cruelties from which even the English
soldiers shrank. The consequences were
that the greater part of the western
and northern districts had to be aban
doned by us because the women and
children were constantly exposed to
murder.
"Camps for the women were then
made In the central parts of the west
ern districts, and the women were pro
vided with carts, tents and food and
placed under the protection of old men
who were less fit for military service.
It was expected that the enemy would
leave these camps for women alone,
but be repeatedly marched upon them,
burned the carts, tents and the food,
seized the aged guards who bad not
been able to flee and caused misery
which cannot be described. And where
he did not appear himself, the enemy
sent the Kaffirs, or, rather, the hordes
of Kaffirs always formed a wing of the
British forces, and they completed the
work of destruction which had been
undertaken by the English troops.
"Many a time it was my. task to visit
these women camps, and I cannot help
saying that I had never expected to be
a witness of such scenes of misery, the
women and children suffering, almost
every one of them, from malaria, fever
and other diseases In consequence of
privations and bad food, without any
physicians, without medicines, without
any consolation in this world, almost
without clothes and. after hostile raids,
?Vi.4-hit -- trsr a nil A r A rtt nil
vv V a.j v lA V CA u j vrvrvA sa ass n v u v i
these women .belonged to the poorer
and lower classes. Some of them were
members of the richest families of our
country. But privation could not curb
the spirit of these noble martyrs, and
by one consent they advised me and
the burghers to persevc, to the bitter
end." ' "
COLLEGE
EDUCATHN.
Merely a Fad, Says Professor Starr
Lacking In Proper Earnestness. ,
Professor Frederick Starr of the Uni
versity of Chicago believes the Ameri
can people are suffering from a surfeit
of higher education, says the New York
World. - The desire for a college educa
tion, he declares, has become a fad and
Is not In the majority of cases Inspired
by a genuine thirst for knowledge.
"Ten times too' many persons go to
college - nowadays." says professor
Starr. "No one should go except from
a bona fide desire to learn. Most peo
ple go for. some social prestige which a
college education confers or because of
the pecuniary value which the posses
sion of a college degree carries with it
In business life. As a result the stu
dents at our colleges get only a smat
tering of scientific hodgepodge, falsely
called science, and go into the world
with wrong notions because they mere
ly dabble In philosophy. Furthermore,
the average college student commits an
cstrichlike fallacy in swallowing every
thing that is given him without ques
tion. The result is detrimental in Its
effects. on our social and Industrial ac
tivities and as" sapping the mental
strength of the country."
Men don't get on the limb of a tree
and cut the limb off every day, but
they do things equally foolish.
